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Privacy, simply.

How Maryland Parks handles location, weather requests, and third-party services.

Your location

The near-me tool requests location only when you choose “Use my location.” Coordinates are used in your browser to sort parks by distance. This site does not send those coordinates to an application server or store a location history.

Third-party requests

Interactive maps load tiles from OpenStreetMap. Weather panels request forecasts and observations from the National Weather Service for a park’s coordinates. Those providers receive ordinary request information, including your IP address. Opening an official website follows that provider’s privacy policy.

Browser storage

Weather responses are cached in browser local storage for 15 minutes to reduce repeated requests. The cache can be removed through your browser’s site-data settings.

Hosting and submissions

Vercel serves the static website and may retain standard hosting logs. No advertising or analytics trackers are included by default. Correction reports submitted through GitHub are handled under GitHub’s privacy policy; public issues are publicly visible.